一人の「哈日(ハーリー)族」女性のライフストーリーにみる<日本>との関係性のあり方

抄録

Japanophilia in Taiwan, which arose since the late 1990s, refers to a passion for Japanese culture products. People who actively practice Japanophilia by consuming products with "Japaneseness" or getting involved with Japanese popular culture are called Japanophiles. They share in common the characteristic of relating themselves to Japaneseness in daily life. In this paper I focus on the life story of one Japanophile girl to clarify a specific mode of relation with Japaneseness. I trace her life story to illustrate how she enjoys her life which is filled with Japanese idols and animations, and how she creates the "feeling of realness" arising from the gap between the real and the virtual, while constantly constructing fantasies of such Japaneseness from afar. Her case implies a specific practice of Japanophilia, that is, she uses her imagination and interpretation to construct a paradoxical pleasure from the representation of Japaneseness by combining a fluctuating but close relationship with it.